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Friday, June 17, 2005

So I heard about this "taking notes" thing and decided to try it out during the Pistons game last night. This should be interesting. -ish. Format is "quote: wtf was I thinking?" Comments which are self explanatory are left as is.

(content warning: swearin'.)

UNEDITED STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS THOUGHT -1Picture in Picture for Mason!

When was the last time you got to MEET and GREET the PA announcer? They actually PiP'd the man when he announced Ben Wallace with the squeaky aggressive "Virginia Union University" and B-b-b-b-b-b-ben WWWWALLLACE. That's when you know you're good at your job: when you get put on TV for no apparent reason (theory does NOT apply to any musicians at Finals).

UNEDITED STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS THOUGHT 0Tayofa needs a spa

Sorry Michele.

UNEDITED STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS THOUGHT 1pop gets t'ed up. bitching about fouls but that looked totally clean, all of themirrelvant replay.on second look that was an obvious foul. awful calls 1-0 pistons

This was a SuperDice game. He seems to have three power levels. On level 1, he misses all his jumpers, can't keep opponents off the boards, and sort of hangs around the perimeter. It happens about once every six or seven games. On level 2 he cans most of those jumpers and rebounds decently enough. On level 3 he's doing that and viciously defending people, blocking the occasional shot, and slamming home other's misses. On level 3 he's the best player on the floor and you wonder about whether he was destined for the HOF before the knee troubles.

UNEDITED STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS THOUGHT 7prince had udrich on him and couldn't get a post positiondude broken

UNEDITED STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS THOUGHT 8lindsay layup. fugging manbrowns calls lindsay "the young man"offensive foul on bowenSELF DESTRUCTOWTF? where was this team in games 12keep giving him that shot FOOLS!!!!!! dice swish line 16 going on 17suckit suckit

UNEDITED STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS THOUGHT 9they cut to the italian guys who are talking about al michaels? I call bullshit. "I believe in miracles"

Look, there is NO way the Italians just just happened to be talking about Al Michaels and saying "Do You Believe In Miracles" accidentally. Also: Michaels TRADEMARKED IT?

WHY do ABC and TNT erroneously believe that I would like to watch three or four possessions a game from a disorienting point of view directly above the floor? I'm not an owl, I do not enjoy pretending that basketball players are fieldmice for me to swoop upon and digest whole, excreting their bones in a weird tufty mass. Is the director at ABC an owl?

UNEDITED STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS THOUGHT 12i'm going to listen to walton to criticize him "this game is too rough for SA" "their fatal flaw is that they don't have a guy who can turn that around." SLAMMING FUCKING ANALYSIS DOUCHETARD

Yes, he could have given a penetrating analysis of the defensive changes that had dramatically slashed the effectiveness of Ginobli and Parker and I would have called him a douchetard anyway. But I am releatively secure in the fact that he probably won't do something useful.

Now I will give penetrating analysis: clearly they just gave Parker any jump shot he wanted and committed to shutting down his dribble driving. Parker's drives consistently forced a ton of rotation and seriously compromised both the three point defense and defensive rebounding. Though they yielded a number of open looks this game the quantity was greatly reduced. Ginobli? Dunno why he looked lethargic. Prince did a good job staying in front of him and he just went meekly in Game 4.

This sequence was a missed Ben offensive putback dunk followed by two consecutive possessions where Ben played fantabulous D on Duncan. Wallace X 2 can defend Duncan, no one can defend Shaq except Shaq's age and weight.

UNEDITED STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS THOUGHT 17this is the best game hunter will ever play the rest of his career.

jesus fuckchrist! lindsayanother defensive miscue by hamilton no screen no nothing.AND 1 for hunter! enjoy this, lindsay. Murder! MOIDER.hunter misses finally, and then a break is given up by HAMILTON AGAIN. now that's a fucking foul billups.hunter for 3! pigs fly! stuart scott talks fucking sense!

You know you are going to win when Lindsay Hunter has 17 points and climbs over the 30% mark for all time playoff shooting. (I was going to call it the Mendoza line, but even Mendoza would be ashamed of that. That's the Hunter line now, 30% shooting. Or maybe the Kobe-vs-Prince line, HA!)

UNEDITED STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS THOUGHT 18duncan is PISSED

When you piss off the Pete Sampras of the NBA, you know you're doing something right. And there wasn't really much for him to complain about other than a blatant hack early in the game. He was well, well defensed all night.